Having a good day today, which is following a really good day yesterday. I spent the majority of my day on the road and the C-Train (Calgary Transit) I have a car to use for the next two weeks, so I spent my first day with the car utilizing it. I also picked up 2 tickets to the Calgary Hitmen Hockey game for Saturday night. Rebekah and I are going to the game Saturday night, and we are going to be sitting on the 2nd row behind one of the nets. Should be great fun. I also got some shopping done for a little something that is coming up this coming Tuesday.

I also stopped by Tim Horton's to pick up a few gift certificates for the church's outreach plans, which I am now in charge of and leading the church in. One of the recent focusses of the church plant, Tapestry Rocky Ridge, is going to be some community survey work in Rocky Ridge in order that we might learn more about the community, but more importantly that we might encounter people that we can tell about Jesus, and invite them to participate in our Bible studies and other things. About 2 weeks ago we had 2 particuarly good conversations with a guy named Raj, and another guy who we didn't get his name, but he was a older man that has recently moved to Calgary from Ontario. We just wanted to stop by and reconnect with these two guys again. Raj wasn't home, so we'll have to go back. The guy from Ontario wasn't home either, but his wife came to the door. A few weeks ago, this guy had told us to not waste our time on him, he wasn't interested in God at all, and did not want to have anything to do with church. He was very nice about it, but he just clearly let us know that he didn't do the "church thing." He said we were welcome to come back, but he didn't plan on coming to church. We had told him thanks for talking to us, and asked if we could stop back in sometime, he said sure, so yesterday was our day to go back and see him again, even though he had told us he was wasting our time. We went with a Tim Horton's gift certificate and a small card inviting him to our church dinner party and discussion group that has been set for March 18th. We did not have high expectations of our return, but we wanted to go anyway. When his wife answered the door, it became very clear that he had told his wife about us, which initially we didn't think was a good thing. His wife told us how much her husband had enjoyed us stopping by, and even though he still wasn't interested in church, he had spoken very highly of what we were trying to do in the community. We left the card and thanked her for talking to us. We walked away pretty surprised that the man had a positive image of us,and we were very excited about it. In western Canada, it's these little, initial things that can be very important as we seek to start a new church that will impact the kingdom. Start small, and continue to have an impact for God, that is our vision for the outreach of Tapestry Church.